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Hacking a Toniebox
ll the things - Toniebox Tags: hacking tonie toniebox Estimated reading time: 7 minutes Continuing my Hack all the things series, I’m doing something slightly different today. So far I’ve hacked my PS Vita and Nintendo 3DS, but this time I want to talk about my Toniebox.
Any interaction, putting on a figurine, slapping the box, using the ears, even playback progress, is recorded and sent out with a unique Toniebox ID – which of course is not anonymized and directly linked to your Tonies account. It’s neat that they’ve separated the URLs this clearly, but it sucks that they’re sending insane amounts of tracking information for a toy designed for and targeted at little kids. It might be a shot in the dark and it may never happen, but… I’ve noticed how my wife and I will often reminisce about cassettes and CDs (sometimes even LPs) we owned as kids and the audio-plays we grew up with.
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